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this time for real: MyBlogLog goes to Yahoo! for an estimated $10-12mio. integration with Yahoo 360 or flickr might be the next logical steps, driving mainstream-adoption of MyBlogLog.

Anothr.com is a Skype-bot pushing instant IM-notifications on new feed-items for any given RSS-feed. the chinese service currently seems to struggle under heavy load (or maybe it’s just network-troubles). great to stay up-to-date regarding Steve Job’s Keynote todays Macworld …

speaking of, the keynote is covered extensively at engadget (and anywhere else).

Carson Systems is extending their event-schedule with an advertising-related conference - The Future of Online-Advertising will premerie on 7th & 8th of june in New York City.

several deals got public within the past 24 hours:

• acquisition of swedisch mobile service company Kennet Works earlier this year got confirmed on GigaOM today. Kennet Works seems to work on ‘mobile real-time communities’. there’s not really any info on their product Kennet Community Connect on their website, however.

• karaoke & video-contest site Bix became a Yahoo!-property today as well. not much to say about the product, other than it’s probably a good match with online video-editor jumpcut, also acquired by Yahoo! few months ago.

• MyBlogLog, social networking site for bloggers (earlier report) has been acquired by Yahoo! today. is in early acquisition-talks with Yahoo! rumours evaluate the deal near the us$ 10mio-mark which - imho - seems not to bad for a company that young. however I agree with a commenter at TechCrunch, claiming that they would probably have made a much better price in a year from now.

update: looks like the MyBlogLog-deal was a false positive, fervently spread but nontheless wrong.

in case you’re not reading this with your favorite RSS-reader, you might have noticed the ‘Recent Readers’ widget - courtesy of MyBlogLog - I recently have added to the sidebar of this blog. MyBlogLog is a social network for blog-readers & -authors, giving a face to the largely anonymous crowd of the blogosphere. besides tracking visitors using cookies, MyBlogLog offers basic site-stats and simple messaging very much like MySpace (”thx for visiting…”). looks like MyBlogLog is gaining some momentum, with even big names like TechCrunch supporting the idea.

update: here’s another downside to the growing number of people consuming blogs through RSS-readers… since I read mostly on Google Reader, the MyBlogLog-cookie will almost never be triggered, therefor preventing my profile from appearing on ‘Recent Readers’-sections of blogs I check out daily…